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When in the 1990s Polish bazaars filled thousands of traders arriving from Russia, I saw rather astonishing scenes on them. 2 about 30 - year - old Russians approached their fellow countrymen, who exchanged a tiny amount for that time and immediately received it. No 1 in the smallest way even tried to argue the demand, no 1 asked for little effort, and it seems that they were frequently asked for amounts akin to the full earnings earned in Poland.

“It is Afghans” – 1 of my Russian bazaars explained it to me. The word “Afghany” meant individual who was at war in Afghanistan. Throughout the russian Union, everyone knew that killing for them was little than spitting. This "Afghans" is besides associated with a thread from the last period of the Fighting Solidarity. From the very beginning, this organization helped deserters from the russian Army. In her underground press she informed about soldiers fleeing russian units, called for shelter, asked for contact with those who knew something about deserters hiding. The organization of Kornel Morawiecki provided effective assistance to at least a fewer young refugees from the russian army. all 1 of them, in the event of falling into the hands of a hatchet from their army, threatened imminent death. In the late 1980s, I met 1 of those Russian boys. any considered him a provocateur, hence he was quietly called “Kagiebeshnik”. He powerfully opposed specified opinions of Kornel Morawiecki stressing that “he is simply a simple boy from the village, no Russian agent.” I remember that boy was hiding on Roland Winciork's farm in Wolf Forest. He spent respective years in Poland. While surviving with various people associated with Solidarity Fighting, he saw the formal collapse of the russian Union and the mass arrivals of traders from Russia and another russian countries. At the time, this guy was walking around Wroclaw freely, alternatively than working anywhere and the household he lived with noticed that he had more and more money. It turned out that this “Kagiebeshnik” of ours saw the “Afghan” and began to grow their “craft”. No more than that, he came to the bazaars (mainly those of the smaller towns in the suburbs) and, claiming to be expected “Afgan” he forced on his fellow countrymen to pay him hare. And everyone paid without murmuring due to the fact that they preferred not to hazard checking whether it was "real Afghan". due to the fact that it is known – if he returns from the war it will execution without second hesitation and happiness, if this death is not committed in an elaborately cruel way.

1 of the long-term declines after each war are thousands of people whose war turned into “killing machines”. In the Polish literature of the 1940s, this phenomenon was called “death infection”. I was born nineteen years after the war and in my young years I heard about what it was like. That means killing yourself for any reason, or for any reason, which was almost the norm of at least a fewer post-war years. presently in Poland there are respective 100 killings a year. In 2023 they were recorded 565, in 2024 – 503. statistic from the first post-war years are only estimated. Although it is known that in the 1940s, erstwhile only over 23 million people lived throughout Poland, at least a fewer 1000 killings were carried out annually. But more like a twelve thousand. I stress that this is only about criminal murders and not those in a full of 150 000 which are the consequence of the communist panic of the first decade under russian occupation. As far as execution is concerned, typically criminal murders – it took decades to reduce this size from the scale of thousands – to the presently recorded respective hundred. Which present is the smallest size in the world. In 2022, we had 0.73 deaths per 100 1000 inhabitants at the European average of 2.24 and the planet average of 6.5! The percent of people killed as a consequence of the execution in Poland present is much lower than in Germany, France, Sweden, Finland and nearly 10 times lower than in the planet average. For this gruesome global average, “working” are primarily countries where armed conflicts and countries neighbouring the war arena have late ended. There are respective twelve times as many people as in our country who are victims of execution (not of war, but of serious crime).

Unfortunately, we are neighbouring a country in a truly terrible war. The massacres that happen on civilians are not all. The Ukrainian Army loses about 1,500 people a day, of which about 300 are fatal losses, nearly a 1000 are injured and respective 100 are missing (mostly deserters). In the case of injured people, this is primarily about severe injuries, frequently irreversible. This is the specificity of the weapon utilized today. erstwhile grenades and firearm bullets most frequently led to injury that could be cured, modern shrapnels or shells frequently teardrop apart bodies, limbs – they cut off. It is known that since the beginning of the war, limb amputations have been carried out on about 150 1000 Ukrainian soldiers. In this number in large part – amputations of both legs or both arms and legs. A akin scale of losses, besides calculated in hundreds of thousands, the 4th year already takes place on the Russian side. all now and then, recordings documenting beastly behavior, no uncertainty becoming an increasingly common standard of this war, besides enter the unofficial media circulation. Means filmed acts of the cruelest methods of death and mutilation, e.g. cutting off genitals captured to soldiers of the other side.

In the case of planet War II, the fact about how its participants could rework in the beast was usually only sold by individual tales. The media hid it and specified channels of information as the net or You Tube (also censored!) were not there. It was only after years, and inactive on a fraction of the promilium scale, that confessions specified as Vladena Anchiszkina, a captain in the mortar branch of 1 of the branches of the 1st Belarusian Front were made public. He said: “After a while, everyone in the war goes crazy. We become beasts. A soldier is not an intellectual and even if an intellectual becomes a soldier, as all day he will look at blood, guts and brains – he remains only instincts. And all human qualities are lost. And man – turns into a monster.”

The war in Ukraine long exceeded the scale of the war in Afghanistan. The number of killed on the russian side, during 10 years of fighting, amounted to 14,453 soldiers there. any consider this figure to be undervalued and to be actual at 26,000. To this should be added respective 1000 killed from the pro-Soviet Afghan forces and hard to estimation the number of killed on the Mujahideen side. It could have been 75 to 90 1000 and respective 100 1000 civilian Afghans. Although any estimation that this size is up to 2 million in 10 years. So at least in the military ranks – already in Ukraine we have at least a fewer (or possibly a dozen, if not dozens) times the number of killed, than during the full decade of the Afghan War. The hell of Ukrainian war is almost as much as the Soviet-German war. And no uncertainty in many of her participants she made changes specified as Captain Anchiszkin spoke of.

It is simply a common desire for the war in Ukraine to end 1 way or another. Poland should be prepared in a peculiar way for this end of the war. We already have millions of Ukrainian citizens on our territory, which has late been associated with rapidly increasing problems. And what happens erstwhile the millions of Ukrainians already in Poland want to join at least any of these hundreds of thousands who have lived in the heart of the war? And it's a hell of a hell that's got hundreds of thousands killed, hundreds of thousands terribly mutilated, and where are the scenes of unimaginable cruelty everyday? 1 thing is certain – the charming utopia of the planet of open borders for a long time must go to the land of unreal dreams. Robust control of the borders of the Republic and the strictest cognition of all man in our territory is an absolute condition of our security.

Artur Adamski